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Aotearoa whanau whanui ki te Aonui
Global
Community of New Zealanders
From Brian Sweeney, Producer www.nzedge.com
Greetings. We are now publishing on most days www.nzedge.blogspot.com.
See the most recent posts below - and if you wish to receive the content
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left of the front page).
Following are summaries of stories we have
published over the past 17 days. We will send these summaries every week
or so from now on.
NZ
SCIENCE & INNOVATION - GLOBAL HEADLINES
People, companies and organizations accentuating the edge in New Zealand
science, technology and innovation - Auckland Airport, First Light ERA,
Geoff Vuleta and New York's Fahrenheit 212, Wallflower Global, Alpine
Wasp rescue helicopter, Txtstation, Kerry Black's Versareef, Wellington
telco OpenCloud, TrustPower, UNESCO Science Laureate Margaret Brimble,
palaeontologist Trevor Worthy, Massey, Victoria and Auckland
Universities, NZ bio-fuels research, cellulosic ethanol production,
possums, Aquaflow...[read
more].
CROWDED
HOUSE AND 'TIME ON EARTH'
Neil Finn is in full voice in more ways than one. The preview webcast of
Crowded House's new Time On Earth album, due July, shows him in
crackling, lyrical, lilting form. Finn and Nick Seymour, with Mark Hart
and Matt Sherrod, have reformed the band and announced tour dates in the
US, Australia and the UK...[read
more].
NEW
ZEALANDERS IN GLOBAL HEADLINES
New Zealanders featured in this week's survey of global media headlines
include Carlisle Everiss, Kate Webb, Frank Bateson, David Bain and Joe
Karam, Marshall Day, Antony Young, Antony Romano, Stevens Lawson, Bob
Rigg, Tim Finn, Ray Comfort, Ted Thomas, James Ferris, Ingrid McDonald,
and Peter Jackson; also NZ food globalizers NZ Blue (New York), Hell
Pizza (Fulham) and Reload (Glasgow); from Wallpaper*, The
Scotsman, Sydney Morning Herald, New York Times, NZ
News UK, Pittsburgh Observer-Reporter, Open Democracy,
MediaVillage, BBC, and ABC News...[read
more].
PETER
BLAKE
For New Zealand, the America's Cup campaigning that began in 1987 has
been a multi-billion dollar value-creator for the country in terms of -
global nautical industries; NZ global logistics; elevating our agrarian
brand image to something more sophisticated; a showcase for design,
engineering and craft excellence; global media coverage; employment;
development (Auckland's waterfront); visitation; teamship; reputation;
respect...[read
more].
90
YEARS SINCE FLANDERS FIELD JUNE 7
"Shoulder to shoulder with the Australians, the men of the New
Zealand Division began their attack in gales and driving rain, faced
with a morass of mud, uncut barbed wire up to 13 metres deep, an erratic
and ineffectual artillery barrage to protect them and withering
machine-gun fire. Slowed by the weather and struggling through thick
mud, they died in their hundreds."...[read
more].
EARTHRACE
AROUND THE WORLD
While the crew of NZL92 rest in Valencia after qualifying for the Louis
Vuitton Cup against Luna Rossa, another stunning New Zealand-designed
vessel is at sea audaciously attempting to break the world record for
circumnavigation of the globe by a powerboat. The Earthrace, a 100%
bio-fuelled, wave piercing trimaran, must arrive in San Diego on or
before 21 June to break the record of 75 days set by the British boat
Cable & Wireless in 1998...[read
more].
NB: News
in the last hour is that Earthrace has had to abandon the
attempt because of damage suffered during a vicious storm in the
Mediterranean Sea.
DOING
BUSINESS IN THE USA
A key element in developing an international-looking culture in New
Zealand is hearing from those people who are already doing it. As
always, it comes back to people and stories. In early 2007, Kea Network
and New Zealand Trade & Enterprise produced an excellent forum in
New York with five international New Zealand companies, offering candid
accounts of the challenges, insights and practicalities of doing
business in the USA...[read
more].
KEVIN
ROBERTS ON THE HEART OF WELLINGTON
Invited by the Wellington City Council to address business leaders and
influencers at Te Papa on the subject of creativity, in the context of
being awarded a WCC-sponsored Kea/NZTE World Class New Zealander Award,
Saatchi & Saatchi CEO Worldwide and nzedge.com co-founder Kevin
Roberts commenced by revisiting the 1991 Saatchi-created Absolutely
Positively Wellington campaign, which put modern moxie into the beige
government town...[read
more].
IT'S
THE EGG, NOT THE KIWI!
Evolutionist Charles Darwin would have made a prototypical New Zealander
- reserved, socially conservative, slow to make up his mind but
eventually pulling off the big kahuna. A new book on Darwin - The
Kiwi's Egg, by David Quammen, a science, nature and travel writer
from Montana - offers hope for a metaphorical makeover, one that puts
the kiwi in the territory of innovation and big ideas rather than
hoodies and hunched shoulders...[read
more].
NZ
LITERARY - GLOBAL HEADLINES
Recent headlines (2007) regarding New Zealand writers and books - from The
Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, Shanghai Daily
and others - Katherine Mansfield, Tzeming Mok, CK Stead, Charlotte
Grimshaw, Elizabeth Smither, Denis Dutton, Robin Maconie and Fay
Weldon...[read
more].
NZ
ART - GLOBAL HEADLINES
Current and recent (2007) headlines about New Zealand artists exhibiting
internationally - Julian Dashper, Reg Mombassa, Alexis Hunter, Horace
Moore-Jones, Claire Fergusson, Donald McCarten, Peter Lyons, Chip
Hooper, Michael Parekowhai, James Boswell, Angela Dwyer and Lisa
Ferguson...[read
more].
DENIS
O'REILLY: "Those that have ears let them hear"
The killing of Jhia Te Tua (2) in a drive-by shooting in Wanganui on May
5 has created grief among her family and iwi - and quite possibly a
tipping point in New Zealand gang history. In the latest post in his Nga
Kupu Aroha: Words of Love series, Denis O'Reilly tells of Jhia Te
Tua's tangi at Tukorehe marae at Kuku south of Levin; the talk of whanau
and warriors; linkages between gangs, social development and
criminality; factors, findings and recommendations of the latest
Government report on youth gangs in Counties Manukau; a New Zealand gang
timeline; international strategies for community-wide approaches to gang
prevention...[read
more].
BACK
TO THE FUTURE
The genesis of the "New Zealand as Edge" metaphor was a
conversation started at the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
conference www.ted.com in California
in 1996 with Kevin Kelly, then founding editor of Wired magazine, about
biological constructs aka change in the species always starts at the
margins, the fringes, the edges. Recently I have been been back in
Monterey for my 10th TED and have been boggled as usual by the range of
presenters, from economists, demographers, architects, photographers,
designers, space scientists, geeks, VCs, surgeons and singers. TED is
like drinking from a firehose...[read
more].
FROM
THE MAILBOX
"If you ask a lot of ex-pats why they left, it is because they
felt their creativity, innovation, get-up-and-go, can-do,
want-to-make-things-happen, stop-standing-in-my-way passion was
frustrated, damped-down, locked into mediocre-levelling,
chop-the-tall-poppy, can't-do-anything-but-the-status-quo, type
individuals who hold onto many leadership positions and are allowed to
do so"...[read
more].
SPECTACLE,
SERENITY, SAFETY
Attracting visitors to New Zealand, and sending them on their way with a
smile on their faces and a promise to return, is our most important
industry. Matterhorn, Poor Knights Islands, Blanket Bay, Ruapehu,
Christchurch, Pinot Noir Festival, Martin Bosley, Great Barrier Island,
Whare Kea Lodge, Travel Cafe Japan, Bay of Islands, Wellington and
tourism statistics...[read
more].
NZ
FILM - GLOBAL HEADLINES
Stories recently published (2007) on the nzedge.com - Cliff Curtis, Phil
Keoghan, Peter Jackson, Jessica Rose, Black Sheep, Ben Cooke, Kirk
Marshall, Jane Campion, Peter Donnelly, Miranda Harcourt, Taika Waititi,
Park Road Post, Alan Dale, Martin Henderson, Bruce McLaren, Weta
Digital, Russell Crowe and Bro'Town...[read
more].
RECOMMENDED
The Roar is a hard-hitting sports opinion website and e-newsletter which
takes an informed look at some of the bigger issues and characters
within Australian and New Zealand international competitions (including
Union, League, Football, Cricket). The Roar features some of Australia's
best sports writers including Wellington-born Spiro Zavos, recognised as
one of the world's most insightful rugby writers, whose column in The
Sydney Morning Herald has run for 20+ years. Spiro has written on New
Zealand politics, literature, sport and identity since the late '60s...[read
more].
TWO
SUNDAY PICTURES
Of Paradise Valley on January 1, 2001, and clouds above Raumati
(above)...[see
more].
Good wishes to all nzedge.com subscribers throughout
the world and in New Zealand.
Brian Sweeney
Producer
THE NEW ZEALAND EDGE
http://www.nzedge.com brian@nzedge.com
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